Episode 117: Want to be a great speaker? Be a great listener with Julian Treasure
In this episode I chat with 5 x TED stage speaker, Julian Treasure about how the design of workspaces affects our productivity and how listening can be beneficial to us as speakers and facilitators.
In this episode you will learn how offices are organic spaces that should be designed based on the activity, factors that affect people’s happiness and productivity in work, why is silence is important in improving conscious listening and how to listen to someone you don’t agree with!
Julian is a sound and communication expert. He travels the world training people to listen better and create healthier sound. He is the author of the books How to be Heard and Sound Business.
His TED talks have been watched more than 80 million times. His latest, How to speak so that people want to listen, is in the top 10 TED talks of all time.
Julian is the founder of The Sound Agency. The audio-branding company asks and answers the question “How does your brand sound?”. The Sound Agency work with some of the world’s biggest brands to improve their sound. Their award-winning work has made headlines internationally.
Julian’s love of sound stems from his early experience as a musician. He was a drummer for British band The Transmitters, amongst many others, and played on their second Peel Session in 1981.
Before The Sound Agency, Julian spent 30 years working in advertising and publishing. He founded, grew and sold contract magazine publishing agency TPD. Nowadays, Julian splits his time between London and Orkney, where he lives with his fiancee and youngest daughter
Like this conversation and want to hear more from Julian? I chatted to him back in Episode 45 of the First Time Facilitator podcast.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Check out Julian’s new online course: How to speak so that people want to listen
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Quotes:
“We don’t have enough quiet working space where people can concentrate.”
“Open plan office can be too quiet or too noisy.”
“The way you speak affects the way I listen and the way I listen affects the way you speak.”
“The best speakers are also good listeners.”
“Silence is the baseline for all listening”